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Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought. -- Hermann von Helmholtz
I've had women come up to me and say I was the reason they went to law school. -- Susan Dey
While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith. -- Ethan Allen
If any difference should be made by law between husband and wife, reason, justice and humanity, if their voices were heard, would dictate that it should be in her favor. -- Ernestine Rose
There is a real and evident problem of democracy in Georgia, and this was the core reason of my entrance into politics. We have no rule of law. It's absolutely absent. -- Bidzina Ivanishvili
An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth. -- Juan Cole
The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind. -- Adam Weishaupt
Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason. -- Archibald Cox
In some ways I'm still recovering from the trial. My health is not as good as it ought to be. I've gone back to practicing law and it seems to have taken a toll for whatever reason. -- Christopher Darden
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied. -- Charles de Secondat
The Question to be considered is, Whether the Government have reason by a Law, to prohibit the taking more than 4 l. per cent Interest for Money lent, or to leave the Borrower and Lender to make their own Bargains. -- Dudley North
But the reason America is a great country, the reason is because our compassion is in our laws. And when we live by those laws and we treat everybody equally under the law, that's when people feel good about being Americans. -- Rick Santorum
This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook. -- Larry Elder
The conflict in the Middle East needs to be solved for the same reasons. It is necessary to reach a two-states solution, built on international law, for sustainable peace and development, and it can only be achieved through joint efforts by the international community. -- Anna Lindh
In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness. -- Ivan Turgenev
The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road. -- James Thurber
If we believe in an all-powerful God, then we must then believe that God gave us this Earth, and we must in turn believe that God gave us its laws of gravity, of chemistry, of physics. We must also believe that God gave us our human powers of intellect and reason. -- Sheldon Whitehouse
I am disturbed by how states abuse laws on Internet access. I am concerned that surveillance programmes are becoming too aggressive. I understand that national security and criminal activity may justify some exceptional and narrowly-tailored use of surveillance. But that is all the more reason to safeguard human rights and fundamental freedoms. -- Ban Ki-moon
I guess law was always interesting to me because you deal with constants. I like to deal with constants, abstracts, constants and reason and ration, rational approaches to things. I don't know, I never really thought why I wanted to study law. But if you ask me whether I would do it again, absolutely. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
The law exists for a reason. There is a dominant American culture that people used to want to preserve. That's going by the wayside, too. But if it's now okay for an illegal alien to practice law in California, then can anybody else who's broken the law get a law license? And if not, why not? -- Rush Limbaugh
Our reason is our law. -- John Milton
Law is mind without reason. -- Aristotle
Law without reason is criminal. -- Criss Jami
The Law ... is perfection of reason. -- Edward Coke
Reason is the life of the law. -- Edward Coke
Reason is the Soul of the Law. -- Thomas Hobbes
The law is reason, free from passion. -- Aristotle
The law is reason unaffected by desire. -- Aristotle
Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer. -- Aaron Hill
Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils. -- Jose Rizal
Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable. -- Blaise Pascal
Law is experience developed by reason and applied continually to further experience. -- Roscoe Pound
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. -- Louis Dudek
Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law. -- John Milton
I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself. -- Thomas More
Civilization involves subjection of force to reason, and the agency of this subjection is law. -- Roscoe Pound
Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law -- Ferdinand de Saussure
The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law -- Alex Levin
And the law, that is the perfection of reason, cannot suffer anything that is inconvenient. -- Edward Coke
Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason. -- John Powell
Law does, because God said so!; Grace does because it understands the reason God said so. -- D.R. Silva
But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable. -- Leo Tolstoy
There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers. -- Christina Stead
Lack of rule of law is the main reason Pakistan could not join the ranks of progressive nations. -- Imran Khan
Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community. -- Thomas Aquinas
Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself! -- Jean Racine
Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community -- St. Thomas Aquinas
According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman. -- Edward Gibbon
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness. -- John Dryden
Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Being a public defender makes you incredibly paranoid - and I would say with reason - about law enforcement. -- Ayelet Waldman
The reason men don't know the law of life is because they're afraid to look Eternity in the face. -- Erle Stanley Gardner
With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason. -- Eric Holder
Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind. -- Abraham Lincoln
Our view of the law is that it - if somebody is here without sufficient documentation, that is not reason for deportation. -- Nancy Pelosi
In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity. -- John Locke
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reasonThe law, which is perfection of reason. -- Edward Coke
What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird? -- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and present needs. -- Felix Frankfurter
No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed over to others. -- Anthony Trollope
Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community. -- Thomas Aquinas
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason. -- Edward Coke
God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
I think there are too many smart people pursuing internet stuff, finance, and law. That is part of the reason why we haven't seen as much innovation. -- Elon Musk
The law of nature instructs most animals to cherish and educate their infant progeny. The law of reason inculcates to the human species the returns of filial piety. -- Edward Gibbon
The reason I like the criminal justice system is there aren't Republican or Democrat victims or police officers or prosecutors. It's about respect for the rule of law! -- Trey Gowdy
Principle II:;: The presumptions of the law are creative presumptions:;: they are aimed at conditions to be brought about, and only for that reason ignore conditions which exist. -- William Ernest Hocking
Education must remove hatred between the pilgrims on the various roads to God. There is only one God, one Goal, one Law, one Truth, one Religion and one Reason. -- Sathya Sai Baba
The primary reason America has survived is that we have had leaders who've respected the Constitution, feared it and the rule of law, and we've been very lucky there. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
The primary reason America has survived is that we have had leaders who've respected the Constitution, feared it and the rule of law, and we've been very lucky there. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood

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